…The Michigan Union celebrated its centennial on Wednesday with cupcakes and a birthday card on the Diag. The Union has been a gathering space for students on campus since its creation in 1919, but the building has been under construction and closed to visitors since April 2018. The Center for Campus Involvement hosted the event. LSA senior Sarah Hussain works as a program coordinator team lead with the Center for Campus Inv...…
…In response to growing concern regarding per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services announced in September they will begin working together to determine the harmful health effects of PFAS in drinking water on Michigan residents. PFAS are a wide variety of chemicals produced by manufacturing, industrial and agricultura...…
…“We’re trying to avoid a situation in which the same group of people tend to get invited or quoted in all of the different pieces and make it easier to erase the excuse of, ‘I didn’t know any women to appear on this panel or this conference, or to consult for this particular project,’” Litman said. While the database is still being created, the Twitter account has been in use since Oct. 1. Prifogle said the account is used to sh...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Thursday, October 17, 2019 Alanna Berger Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Ed...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, October 17, 2019 — 5A Blankenburg embracing physicality despite size Last January, when Penn State came to Ann Arbor, then- freshman defenseman Nick Blankenburg was on the ice for his first shift just under five minutes into the game. Within moments of taking the ice, he laid a hit that Michigan coach Mel Pearson can’t forget. Forward Liam Folkes came up through the neutral zo...…
…By Susan Gelfand ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 10/17/19 Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis 10/17/19 ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: Release Date: Thursday, October 17, 2019 ACROSS 1 Quick blows 5 In need of a massage 9 “Back to the Future” surname 14 Kitchen topper 15 Repeatable toy vehicle sound 16 Pine or Rock 17 Duo in the news 18 Pushed the bell 19 Fountain pen precursor 20 Artic...…
…2B — Thursday, October 17, 2019 b-side The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Climate change is real and it’s happening now. From fossil fuel emissions and greenhouse gases, to the growing ecological footprints of individuals all across the country, our earth is in a state of crisis. These are only a few layers to the broader crisis we are facing while simultaneously waiting for government officials to implement some form of policy to ch...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, October 17, 2019 — 3B Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg has been making big headlines with her environmental activism, even making the cover of Time Magazine. Thunberg looks stunning on the cover, a green and ruffled dress falling perfectly over her small frame, making her look more mature than her usual hoodie and jeans ensemble — somebody to be taken seriously. ...…
…I read Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie” in 10th grade English class. Ever since then, I’ve been a fan of his work. In particular, I love his concept of a “memory play,” the idea of a play taking place entirely in the mind of a character and thus being warped by the distortions, diminutions and exaggerations we all experience in our memories. Williams himself states at the beginning of the play that “the scene is memory and i...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com b-side Thursday, October 17, 2019 — 5B B-SIDE: TV NOTEBOOK Trey Parker and Matt Stone, co-creators of “South Park,” never apologize. Even after getting banned in China last week for satirizing Chinese censorship on the episode “Band In China,” the duotweeteda mock apology. “We too love money more than freedom and democracy,” the statement reads. “We good now, China?” (South Park and China are cu...…
…6B — Thursday, October 17, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Climate change as an issue is abstract — we know it’s coming, but how many of those issues detailed in the climate report can we actually see, in Ann Arbor, right now? Sure, point to trends, rising temperatures and the melting ice caps (Iceland recently held a funeral for one of their melted glaciers), but has anything changed in our day-to-day life here that ref...…
…As University of Michigan students began school two weeks ago, approximately 30 international students were unable to matriculate because of delays in their United States visa applications, according to University spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen. The three students interviewed in this article all requested anonymity due to fear of retaliation from the United States Department of State. Other identifying information, such as the stu...…
…Several state lawmakers introduced a new expungement reform plan package on Sept. 9. The package includes six separate bills aimed at changing various aspects of the state’s expungement system. Expungement refers to the legal process of sealing a past criminal offence to make them unavailable. If passed, the bills would allow for a shortened eligibility period, expungement for crimes that are currently permissible un...…
…used for the next five years, provided by Axon Enterprise, Inc. City Councilmember Kathy Griswold, D-Ward 2, pointed to the benefits of equipping the city’s police force with more state-of-the-art accountability technology. “I am absolutely thrilled we are moving forward with this purchase,” Griswold said. “My one question is, this is a five- year contract — will this see enough money and does the contract stipulate that we are ...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Tuesday, September 17, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emily Considine Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Krystal Hur Ethan Kessler Magdalena Mihaylova Max Mittleman Timothy Spurlin Miles Stephenson Finn Storer Nicholas Tomaino Joel Weiner Erin White FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Ed...…
…Grudges are a funny thing — they can last for years, or be over within the span of a week. There is little to no correlation between the pettiness of the original offense and the length of the grudge. They’re a habit that make zero sense, and yet they remain a source of unnecessary strife in many of our lives. Ann Patchett’s newest release, “The Dutch House,” revolves around the familial grudges that can often drive the development of l...…
…JPEGMAFIA’s All My Heroes Are Cornballs rides on the success of his 2018 effort Veteran. The same motifs, tools and ad-libs set the scene again as MAFIA traces back his anguish, trauma and anxiety in his characteristically murky, comical lo-fi rap. His signature “you think you know me” line tags nearly every track, circling back to an ever-persistent theme of there being more pain and truth beneath one’s surface persona. Much like his ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Tuesday, September 17, 2019 — 7 Ambry Thomas details recovery process before season-opener Fans have known about Ambry Thomas’s offseason plight. They saw his triumphant return, featuring an interception in the season-opener against Middle Tennessee State. They even briefly heard from Thomas himself about what it meant to see the field once again after recovering from illness. But ...…
…On May 25, two girls dressed in matching white tops and navy skirts took their posi- tions to play doubles in a tennis match in Or- lando, Fla. But these were no ordi- nary girls, no ordinary outfits and, certainly, no ordinary match. It was the final evening of the NCAA Division I Men’s & Women’s Tennis Tournament. The two girls that stepped onto that court each had already made history in their own ways and were hungry for one ...…
…Housing disputes tend to be between a landlord and a tenant, but in LSA junior Samantha Goldstein’s and her roommates’ case, their disagreement found them allied with their landlord and fighting against their neighbor’s landlord. Now, Goldstein and her landlord, Kaveh Esmael, are speaking out about their neighbor’s abusive proprietor. Goldstein and her six roommates live in a house on South University Avenue between Wal...…
…On Tuesday evening, the University of Michigan Central Student Government held its second-to-last meeting of the semester in the Michigan League to discuss resolutions for moving Assembly meetings to Thursday evenings and codifying Wolverine Consulting Group, a free consulting service provided by CSG to student organizations. The Assembly also approved a resolution organizing healthy snack distribution in campus libraries ...…
…“This year we really wanted to build up the festival,” Singh said. “So really focusing on what different sections we want, so arts and music, live service, sustainability and so on … . We really wanted to focus on bringing out more interactive organizations — we want this to be more about showcasing what exactly your org has to offer to the University and what community value you bring to campus.” Singh also said the group inv...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4A — Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Zack Blumberg Emma Chang Joel Danilewitz Emily Huhman Tara Jayaram Jeremy Kaplan Magdalena Mihaylova Ellery Rosenzweig Jason Rowland Anu Roy-Chaudhury Alex Satola Timothy Spurlin Nicholas Tomaino Erin White Ashley Zhang FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, April 17, 2019 — 5A Sally Rooney entered the literary scene in 2015 with “Even if You Beat Me,” a nonfiction essay published in the Dublin Review recounting her years as a champion debater. A year later, Rooney made the jump to fiction with “Mr Salary,” a short story picked up by the literary magazine Granta and quickly shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, the rich...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Wednesday, April 17, 2019 — 7A Big game woes T he Michigan baseball team is 24-11 overall and stands third in the Big Ten. The Wolverines have scored 100 more runs than their oppo- nents, only one regular starter has an on-base per- centage less than .300 and the team has 38 total home runs. They’ve won five games by double digits, 16 by four or more runs and have a defense tha...…
…8A — Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan football freshmen experiencing benefits of early enrollment There’s a phrase ringing around Schembechler Hall: Michigan’s early enrollees “should be at high school prom.” Cornerbacks coach Mike Zordich described them as “raw” and “green.” Certainly, they’re not ready for college football, not yet. This is what spring ball is for thos...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | APRIL 17, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY LAUREN KUZZEE “In-State”: A reflection on the U.P., its students and the University of Michigan …
…Wednesday, April 17, 2019 // The Statement 2B Managing Statement Editor Andrea Pérez Balderrama Deputy Editors Matthew Harmon Shannon Ors Designers Liz Bigham Kate Glad Copy Editors Miriam Francisco Madeline Turner Photo Editor Annie Klusendorf Editor in Chief Maya Goldman Managing Editor Finntan Storer statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | APRIL 3, 2019 G aining a solid foundation in grammar was one of the hall- marks of m...…
…3B “Congratulations, you won!” have become words to fear in the age of robocalls. Nearly every cell phone owner is familiar with the feeling of answering what looks like a local number, but hearing a cold, robotic voice awarding us a free Hawaiian cruise, or warning us of a vendetta from the IRS. When taken for face value, robocalls seem to exist for the sole purpose of malicious irritation, but a closer look reveals that they have s...…
…“In-State”: A reflection on the U.P., its students and the University of Michigan People in Houghton, a town in the Upper Peninsula, only wake up at 4 a.m. to do one of three things: plow snow, watch the sunrise or catch one of the two daily flights from Houghton County Memorial Airport to Chicago O’Hare. My intention to watch the sunrise drew me to wake up at 4 a.m. in July 2017. I gathered my siblings to drive “up north” — an hour ...…
…I have heard it all. About how there’s nothing in the world quite like walking to Michigan Stadium with your friends on game days — when jubi- lant music floods the streets and Ann Arbor is indisputably wide awake. About hunching over crinkled papers and half- finished lattes in the library late at night. About the fading intensity of homesick- ness as you find the friends that’ll speak at your wedding someday and the growing sense o...…
…Wednesday, January 16, 2019 // The Statement 7B Wednesday, April 17, 2019 // The Statement 7B A love letter to “U” I decided to go to the University of Michigan without ever hav- ing stepped foot on this campus. I had a really good feeling about it, and for some reason, my gut knew. I loved what people had to say about U-M grads — that they are wicked smart and successful, but also extremely friendly, kind and humble. From the beg...…
…VISUAL STATEM ENT VISUAL STATEM ENT “IF YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME FRESHMAN YEAR THAT I WOULD BE CHASING JORDAN POOLE AND THE MICHIGAN BASKETBALL TEAM AROUND A COURT IN WICHITA, KANSAS AND THEN SPEND THE NEXT 15 HOURS (AND MANY RED BULLS) DRIVING BACK TO ANN ARBOR, THEN SPEND 6 HOURS MAKING A NEWSPAPER, THEN SOMEHOW MAKING IT BACK TO MY BED, I WOULD HONESTLY NOT BELIEVE YOU. BECAUSE I STILL FIND HARD TO BELIEVE TODAY ALL OF THE INCREDIBLE E...…
… Gwen Tessier, University alum and former Student Adminis- trative Assistant Intermedi- ate for the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, alleges her employment was terminated as a result of reporting sexual harassment at the University of Michigan. Tessier worked for the Uni- versity from 1998-2004 and in ICPSR specifically from 2009- 2015. ICPSR is an international research consorti...…
…On Jan. 9, the city of Ann Arbor received finalized re- sults of a two-year research study about the effects on driver-pedestrian behav- ior related to an increase in crosswalk signs, law enforce- ment and general awareness of the pedestrian right-of- way laws. According to the study conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Ad- ministration, there has been an increase in pedestrian traffic fatalities since 2009. The study w...…
…we discussed some potential projects for making campus more affordable. They men- tioned that Ohio State put out a landlord report card every year and I thought it was a great idea. Then, when Dan- iel’s party was campaigning for CSG, their policy director reached out to me for sugges- tions and I relayed the infor- mation to him.” CSG President Daniel Greene believes the report card empowers student voic- es in the off-campus housi...…
…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Thursday, January 17, 2019 Y es — the day we have all feared is fast approaching. With health issues including two cancerous nodules recently removed from her lungs and broken ribs, it seems as if the day Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg must step down is coming quicker than we had hoped. Imagining the court without the “Notorious RBG” requires a dynamic analysis. First, we ...…
…5 — Thursday, January 17, 2019 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Shortlisted Man Booker Prize novels are enthralling “Everything Under,” Daisy Johnson’s 2018 Man Booker prize-shortlisted novel that relocates Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex” to modern-day England and reinterprets the story through what some may call a feminist lens, has been praised for its daring alone. Well, here’s that pat on the back. Now, on to evalua...…
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…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Sports Thursday, January 17, 2019 — 7 Michigan faces test against Iowa When the Michigan women’s basketball team enters Carver-Hawkeye Arena Thursday night, it will face one of the biggest challenges of Big Ten play, both literally and figuratively. While the Wolverines’ (11-6 overall, 2-3 Big Ten) game against No. 23 Iowa (12-4, 3-2) could have major implications for their NCAA tourna...…
…8 — Thursday, January 17, 2019 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Notebook: Coaching hires, Gattis contract and offering a seventh grader Minutes after Michigan’s Peach Bowl loss to Florida last month, a reporter asked Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh whether he anticipated any changes to his coaching staff. The answer, perhaps predictably, was a simple “no.” Three weeks later, that prediction has proven incorr...…
…About 60 people convened Monday at Palmer Commons for a Senate Assembly forum to discuss University of Michigan Board of Regents candidate platforms for the upcoming Nov. 6 election. Incumbents and first-time candidates covered topics such as financial aid, academic freedom, the recent reprimanding of Prof. John Cheney-Lippold for his refusal of a recommendation letter and more throughout the event. The forum was designed t...…
…allow students and faculty hear each candidate’s position on various issues and participate in an open Q&A discussion. The meeting began with each of the five candidates outlining their platforms. Incumbent Regents Andrea Fischer Newman (R) and Andrew Richner (R) spoke with challengers Jordan Acker (D), Paul Brown (D) and Kevin Graves (Green Party) to outline each of their respective platforms. There are two open ...…
…offers the greatest possible safeguards to Michigan’s waters while maintaining critical connections to ensure Michigan residents have the energy resources they need,” Gov. Rick Snyder wrote in a press release. “The historic agreement will result in eliminating nearly every risk of an oil leak in the Straits and provide added protections to the Great Lakes. It also will allow for multiple utilities to be housed and prot...…
…T hough Facebook is the most commonly cited bad guy when it comes to misuse of its users’ personal information, especially in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal or the recent breach affecting 50 million accounts, this week Google joined its ranks following a massive data exposure incident of its own. The main issue with this recent data incident is not its size or the fact that it even happened at all. The ethical problem...…
…I read “Anna Karenina” on the school bus when I was 13. I took it a chapter a ride, shining a flashlight I kept in my backpack over the pages in the winter when the mornings were dark. It was my favorite part of the day — a stolen quiet moment, with just me and Anna and Kitty and Vronsky. I knew pretty much immediately that this would become the best book I would ever read, and even though 13-year-old me was wrong about a lot of ...…
…and curious of why choices were made. I specifically remember, as a dancer, you’re very consumed with your individual performance or role. I wanted to expand my mindset but stay in the same art form. Directing is something I’ve always wanted to do; as a child, I was putting on shows in my garage and selling tickets for a quarter. Putting on a performance is something I’ve always done. TMD: One of the choreographers you...…
…The cliches continue Jim Harbaugh said Monday he thinks everyone could use a break from the cliches in the Michigan-MSU rivalry. That may not be possible. » Page 2B Here’s the season After dominating Maryland on Saturday, the toughest part of Michigan’s schedule lies ahead. » Page 2B The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | October 17, 2018 Design by Jack Silberman Evan Aaron / Daily SPORTSWEDNESDAY “REVENGE TOUR” @ MICHI...…
